Spatial frequency performance limitations of radiation dose optimization and beam positioning

Physics in Medicine and Biology
James M P StewartDavid A Jaffray

Abstract

The flexibility and sophistication of modern radiotherapy treatment planning and delivery methods have advanced techniques to improve the therapeutic ratio. Contemporary dose optimization and calculation algorithms facilitate radiotherapy plans which closely conform the three-dimensional dose distribution to the target, with beam shaping devices and image guided field targeting ensuring the fidelity and accuracy of treatment delivery. Ultimately, dose distribution conformity is limited by the maximum deliverable dose gradient; shallow dose gradients challenge techniques to deliver a tumoricidal radiation dose while minimizing dose to surrounding tissue. In this work, this 'dose delivery resolution' observation is rigorously formalized for a general dose delivery model based on the superposition of dose kernel primitives. It is proven that the spatial resolution of a delivered dose is bounded by the spatial frequency content of the underlying dose kernel, which in turn defines a lower bound in the minimization of a dose optimization objective function. In addition, it is shown that this optimization is penalized by a dose deposition strategy which enforces a constant relative phase (or constant spacing) between individual radiat...Continue Reading

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